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• Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain

  Posted on Jul 19, 2012 at 2:39 AM

  Fascinating, Larry. I thought research on this area started with Jung - had no idea it went back to Pavlov. Thanks for the insight.... read more »

• Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain

  Posted on Jul 18, 2012 at 4:23 PM

  Very interesting, Larry, thanks. You should read Cain if you haven't. She cites Eysenck's studies of arousal, and subsequent critiques. My point, and hers, is really that today's culture uses labels such as "phobia" and "drawback" to signal that the opposite qualities ar... read more »

• Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain

  Posted on Jul 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM

  @Larry "That said introversion has some serious drawbacks, neophobia - fear of the new" Cain argues that had the financial gunslingers who contributed to our current economic woes taken a more risk-averse approach, things might have turned out better. Personally I bac... read more »

• Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain

  Posted on Jul 14, 2012 at 6:10 PM

  Great review, Ben. What I like about Quiet is that it's not primarily a self-help book. She does offer some good advice, but her main purpose seems to be to campaign for a higher value to be placed on quiet, thoughtful people - or in fact a return to the values of an age when integrity mattered m... read more »

• Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files

  Posted on Jan 12, 2012 at 4:36 AM

  Ben, for a CF approach to modularising JS and CSS check out Dominic Watson's superb CfStatic: http://cfsimplicity.com/43/the-simplicity-of-cfstatic As well as concatenation it will also minify... read more »

• Using Google's Targeted Site Search Protocol To Search My Site

  Posted on Sep 18, 2011 at 4:49 AM

  Ben, I was considering Google for my static blog's search, but ended up with a much more satisfactory integrated solution. http://cfsimplicity.com/39/integrated-search-for-a-sta... read more »